Scientific America has a pretty neat-o story with pictures on the first civilian airplanes, including what very well may be, the first near in air collision of 2 planes.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/aviation-civilian-airplanes-1914-slide-show/
A Close Shave:
At an aviation meet in Heliopolis, Egypt, Maurice Guillaux’s monoplane narrowly missed smashing into Maurice Chevillard’s biplane. “With only a few flying machines in the world and the whole ocean of air to fly in, one would think a collision of aeroplanes to be next to impossible.”
Image: Scientific American, June 20, 1914
Paris Air Show:
The report inScientific American,published January 10, 1914, on the "Fifth International Exhibition of Aerial Locomotion” noted the mix of civilian and military aircraft, mostly of French manufacture and one display from the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
Image: Scientific American Supplement, January 10, 1914
And here's a time lapse video of a man building a Neuport 28 biplane.
For some reason I couldn't load it directly to this page but it's really cool to watch the plane get built. It starts with the delivery of boxes of parts and goes all the way thru the building process and to the first test flight.
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